Back in the day, high schools offered Home Economics. They might sound old-fashioned, but those classes taught essential skills such as sewing on buttons, writing checks, and cooking basic meals.

The best kids cooking classes near Boston teach young chefs safe food prep, healthy eating, and nutrition. Whether our kids are adventurous eaters or too timid to try anything beyond boxed mac ’n’ ...

Chef Adam Pawlak, who owns Egg & Flour and was a contestant on Gordon Ramsay’s “Hell’s Kitchen,” was inspired to cook when he was a kid. “By my mom and great aunts and uncles and grandparents,” says ...